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WHEN day came, the people again began to pour in with offerings of fruit and other dainties.
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SO the eight Vajrapanis escorted Tripitaka back to the east.
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THEY travelled westward for many months, and at last began to be aware that the country through which they were now passing was different from any that they had seen.
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'NOW we have got to decide which of us is to go down under the water first,' said Monkey, when he reached the bank.
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'GREAT KING, our Father,' said the worshippers, when all was ready, 'following our yearly custom, we now offer up to you a male child, War Boy, and a female child, Load of Gold, together with a pig, a sheep, and a due portion of liquor.'
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THE king's tears gushed like a fountain all the time till darkness fell.
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SEEING that Monkey had even dragons at his beck and call, the king was just at the point of stamping the passports with his jewelled seal and sending the pilgrims on their way, when the three Taoists rushed forward and put in a petition, kneeling as they did so, which was quite contrary to their usage.
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MONKEY pinched Sandy with one hand and Pigsy with the other. They understood what he meant and both sat stock still, while the three Taoists advanced, peering about in every direction.
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MONKEY and the other two disciples lowered the clouds on which they rode and returned to Court, where they received the humble thanks of the king, his ministers, heir and consort, and all the officers.
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THE pain in that great Monkey Sage's head was so severe that at last he could bear it no longer and cried piteously, 'Master, stop praying, stop praying! I'll doctor him.'
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THE prince was soon back at the city of Crow-cock, and as instructed he made no attempt to go in by the main gate, but without announcing himself went to the back gate, where several eunuchs were on guard.
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TRIPITAKA sat in the Zen Hall of the Treasure Wood Temple, under the lamp; he recited the Water Litany of the Liang Emperor and read through the True Scripture of the Peacock.
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SO the three of them travelled on towards the west, and came at last to a great plain.
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The monster fled with Monkey at his heels, till they came at last to a high mountain, and here the monster disappeared into a cave, and a moment later came back brandishing a nine-pronged muck-rake.
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THEY had been travelling for several days through very wild country when at last, very late in the evening, they saw a group of houses in the far distance.
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IT was mid-winter, a fierce north wind was blowing and icicles hung everywhere.
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THE hunter and Tripitaka were still wondering who had spoken, when again they heard the voice saying, ‘The Master has come.’
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IT was three days before the full moon, in the ninth month of the thirteenth year of Cheng Kuan, when Tripitaka, seen off by the Emperor and all his ministers, left the gates of Ch’ang-an.
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THE gale of dark wind that blew through the gates of Death when they were opened, carried Liu, his wife, and the demon that escorted them, all the way to the city of Ch’ang-an.
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EVERYTHING was dim and blurred; but it seemed to the Emperor that he was standing outside the Tower of the Five Phoenixes.
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